A by Felix Volkhovsky - 1892

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2009-06-13. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2009-06-13. Paperback. Used:Good.

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T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. ~Blue patterned boards, page edges and endpapers. Rubricated title page and half-title. Slight wear to corners and ends of spine. Slight forward lean. ~Robust packaging. Overseas tracking available on request.. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 176pp. Pocketsize: 9.5x16.5cm. No ownership marks. Binding sound, text unmarked.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. Cloth. Very Good. 6.5" by 4". None. A charming collection of children's stories. Volume two in The Children's Library Series. Illustrated with two full page monochrome plates. Contains the stories: A China Cup How Scarlet-Comb the Cock Defended the Right The Tiny Screw The Dream Browny The Old Sword's Mistake 'My Own' The Tale About How All These Tales Came to Light Feliks Vadimovich Volkhovsky was a Russian revolutionary, journalist and writer. After moving to the UK with his daughter, Volkhovsky wrote a number of children's stories, including those found in this works. In a decorative blue and white cloth binding. Externally smart, with some slight bumping to the extremities and the head and tail of the spine. Small red ink spill to front board. Spine is sunned. A few marks to the boards. Internally generally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Small area of dampstaining to head of plate two. Very Good

New York, printed by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh: Frederick A. Stokes Company Vol 2 in Children's Library series., 1891. Hardcover. Good. Plates (2) in black & white by Malischeff.. Duodecimo (17x11cm) green cloth on bevelled boards with floral gilt spine, gilt title and small floral emblem to cover (tips sl.worn) Top Edge gilt, others uncut. Half title and Titlepage both printed in red & black + contents leaf +176pp. Endpapers and page facing them browned else all pages clean, tight and uncut. *Feliks Vadimovich Volkhovsky was a Russian revolutionary, journalist and writer. He became involved in radical student politics in St Petersburg in the 1860s. In 1867, he co-founded the 'One Rouble Society' which was dedicated to propaganda and educational work among the masses (Wikipedia). He escaped from Siberian exile in 1889 and then settled in London.

London : T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. Cloth. Good. 6.5" by 4". Malischeff. A scarce edition of the revolutionary Volkhovsky's series of children's stories. Illustrated frontispiece of a woman killing a fowl with numerous illustrations throughout, all by Malischeff. Includes the stories, The Tiny Screw, Browny and The Old Sword's Mistake. Feliks Vadimovich Volkhovsky was a Russian revolutionary, journalist and writer. He was arrested many times; in 1874 he was a defendant at the 1878 'Trial of the 193' and banished to Siberia. He escaped in 1889 via America. Volkhovsky was involved in 'Land and Liberty' and, when that group split in 1879, in 'The People's Will'. In a cloth binding. Externally, a trifle rubbed with mark to corner of front board and fading to backstrip. Bumping to corners and head and tail of spine. Internally, generally firmly bound with pages bright and clean. Good

, 176 pages, with illustrated half title page plus 2 black & white plates"

4 Stamford Brook Road, Hammersmith, London, 7 November 1893. 2 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition. Felix Volkhovsky (1846-1914), Russian revolutionary, journalist and writer. Banished to Siberia, he escaped in 1889 via America. Volkhovsky was involved in 'Land and Liberty' and, when that group split in 1879, in 'The People's Will'. After escaping from Siberia, he made his way to Western Europe, eventually settling in London. Volkhovsky served as a bridge-builder within the Russian opposition movement and between Russian radicals and the Western European public. “... I should like to secure myself the right to change that date for an earlier one in case it might be emplied [sic] by some new engagement, many of them - for Cornwall & Cambridge, for example - being just now in the period of negociation.”